D&D General Fun Experiment: Post a cool bit of (mostly) unknown lore from your favorite setting (+)

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

In an empty, strangely becalmed region of the Astral Plane lies a fortress known as Pitiless, run by a pair of twin dwarven brothers affiliated with the Doomguard. Seeking to prove the fundamental truth of their Faction's ideology - that Entropy ensures that everything inevitably falls apart, even the Multiverse itself - the brothers came to the Astral more than a thousand years ago to put this theory to the ultimate test, submitting items and creatures under their care to eternal scrutiny and observation to await the inevitable signs of decay and dissolution even in this supposedly timeless, unchanging void that would unequivocally prove their beliefs to be correct. All manner of items - from mundane pottery, to mighty magical artifacts - are carefully catalogued and stored away, and all manner of creatures kept locked in solitary, isolated cells, some even specially enchanted suppress magic, to while away eternity.

Ideological goals aside, Pitiless is functionally one of the most secure warehouses and private prisons in the Multiverse, for the brothers have spared no expense, including employing a force of fifty frost giant mercenaries, to ensure that nothing save true Entropy itself could harm or alter the subjects of their long, patient watch.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Duke Nharov Gundar, vampire and darklord of Gundarak, was betrayed by his closest ally and slain by a party of powerful adventurers, who drove a wooden stake through his heart. His skeletal remains were cast into the basement of his castle, now under new ownership. Years later, after the castle was abandoned, the Duke's skeleton was sold as a curiosity to a wandering carnival, where it was on display in a museum of oddities. It was marketed by the museum's owner as the authentic skeleton of Duke Gundar, but even they never believed it was anything but a fake. Eventually, some unlucky soul removed the stake and the Duke returned to furious unlife. No longer confined to his previous domain (itself carved apart and taken by its neighbors), Gundar wanders the Core, plotting his return to power.

 

[darjr]

There is a hidden hoard of Dr. Pepper in Waterdeep. It's why you couldn't buy Dr. Pepper in Madison Wisconsin to save your life.